Further, the statistical returns of crime demonstrate, not only that such is the present state of crime in the densely peopled and manufacturing districts, compared to what obtains in the agricultural or pastoral, but that the tendency of matters is still worse;[4] and that, great as has been the increase of population during the last thirty years in the manufacturing and densely peopled districts, the progress of crime has been still greater and more alarming. From the instructive and curious tables below, constructed from the criminal returns given in _Porter's Parliamentary Tables_, and the returns of the census taken in 1821, 1831, and 1841, it appears, that while in some of the purely pastoral counties, such as Selkirk and Anglesey, crime has remained during the last twenty years nearly stationary, and in some of the purely agricultural, such as Perth and Aberdeen, it has considerably _diminished_, in the agricultural and mining or manufacturing, such as Shropshire and Kent, it has _doubled_ during the same period: and in the manufacturing and mining districts, such as Lancashire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Renfrewshire, more than _tripled_ in the same time. It appears, from the same authentic sources of information, that the progress of crime during the last twenty years has been much more rapid in the manufacturing and densely peopled than in the simply densely peopled districts; for in Middlesex, during the last twenty years, population has advanced about fifty per cent, and serious crime has increased in nearly the same proportion, having swelled from 2480 to 3514: whereas in Lancashire, during the same period, population has advanced also fifty per cent, but serious crime has considerably _more than doubled_, having risen from 1716 to 3987. [Footnote 4: Table, showing the comparative population, and committals for serious crime, in the under-mentioned counties, in the years 1821, 1831, and 1841. I.--PASTORAL 1821. 1831. 1841. Pop. Com. Pop. Com. Pop. Com. Cumberland, 156,124 66 169,681 74 178,038 151 Derby, 213,333 105 237,070 202 272,217 277 Anglesey, 43,325 10 48,325 8 50,891 13 Carnarvon, 57,358 12 66,448 36 81,893 33 Inverness, 90,157 ... 94,797 35 97,799 106 Selkirk, 6,637 ... 6,833 2 7,990 4 Argyle, 97,316 ... 100,973 41 97,321 96 II.--AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING. 1821. 1831. 1841. Pop. Com. Pop. Com. Pop. Com.